Senators Bill Cassidy and Tim Kaine proposed creating an additional fund for Social Security that would be invested in stocks and other investments in hopes of generating returns.

If I predecease my wife, is she entitled to survivor benefits if she is younger than 62?

The SSA has now confirmed it has sent out 3.1 million payments to those impacted by the Social Security Fairness Act.

With Social Security trust funds estimated to run out in less than a decade, some Americans wonder if Congress will step in ...

Social Security recently reached an important milestone: In May 2025, average benefits climbed to over $2,000 per month for the first time. That means the typical senior can expect around $24,000 in ...

But what would make the 2026 cost-of-living adjustment special is that it would mark the fifth consecutive year of at least a ...

Social Security beneficiaries will see their payments arrive a little later than normal this month due to a quirk in the safety net program’s payment calendar.

There are several other months with later dates for the initial benefit payments, which fell on the 12th of February and will fall on the 13th of August and 12th of November. Social Security ...

Rennie Glasgow, who has served 15 years at the Social Security Administration, is seeing something new on the job: dead people. They're not really dead, of course. In four instances over the past ...

As the Social Security Administration greatly reduces its staff and changes benefit claims requirements, there has been a growing fear that the safety net for seniors could be about to vanish or ...

Some Social Security beneficiaries will be getting higher benefit payments this month as a recently-passed law kicks in for public sector workers whose benefits had been reduced in the past. The ...

“Social Security won’t be touched, other than if there’s fraud or something we’re going to find. It’s going to be strengthened,” Trump said in a February interview on Fox News.